On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 04:21:25PM +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
>In investigating this, I believe the issue I am having is due to how
>stat() handles tilde prefixed paths. On linux we see:
>
>linux$ $ python -c 'import os; print os.stat("~/..")'
>Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/..'
>
>and on cygwin we see:
>
>cygwin$ python -c 'import os; print os.stat("~/..")'
>posix.stat_result(st_mode=16832, st_ino=562949953496729L,
>st_dev=4174909669L, st_nlink=1, st_uid=42037, st_gid=10513, st_size=0L,
>st_atime=1357616166, st_mtime=1357616166, st_ctime=1357616166)
It is a bug. It's not just "~". Any nonexistent directory will
work, like "foo/..".
cgf
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